All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.
The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.
Freedom without limits is when you choose to be a Bondman for "JESUS".... Sounds funny but it is the fact as well as the Truth
Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.
Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.
Coexistence and personal peace are at the heart of global peace and harmony.
WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
The use of rape and enslavement as weapons of war MUST END!
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.
There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth or myths we create for building and preserving the next culture. In order to do so, however, we must recognize that ...
To put it simply: the Holy Spirit bothers us. Because he moves us, he makes us walk, he pushes the Church to go forward. And we are like Peter at the Transfiguration: 'Ah, how wonderful it is to be here like this, all together!' ... But don't bother ...
For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one like hunting or fighting. It may be a common religion, common studies, a common profession, even a common recreation. A...
I know your race and mine are never on the best of terms." There was a cold smile in his voice if not on his face. "But I do only what you force me to. You rationalize, Keeton. You defend. You reject unpalatable truths, and if you can't reject them o...
Maybe we feel meaning only when we deal with something bigger. Perhaps we hope that someone else, especially someone important to us, will ascribe value to what we've produced? Maybe we need the illusion that our work might one day matter to many peo...
each year India produces thousands upon thousands of eighteen-year olds who have little to no instructed idea of the last sixty years of Indian history. They have no idea if or how those five-year plans worked. They have no idea if or how the Non-Ali...